HR Business Partner Germany Switzerland

Job Title: HR Business Partner (Germany & Switzerland)

Job Type: Full Time Permanent

Working location: Frankfurt Airport

This role requires fluency in both German and English.

Employment Relations

Advise managers on all staff related matters and guide on employment law issues

To case manage all discipline grievance and counselling and to ensure it takes place in line with Company procedures is fair and reasonable

Conduct internal investigations where required engaging appropriate internal resources and escalating on high risk or criminal activity

To monitor all employee relations issues highlighting and identifying areas of concern and taking effective countermeasures.

Recruitment

To support with recruitment to ensure that advertising of vacancies is designed effectively and works to attract the right calibre of staff

To manage through exit interviews succession planning and retention processes

To provide Management with resourcing trend analysis data and proactively guiding them to take appropriate measures

Monitoring the Hiring process and ensure all documentation interviews are consistent and comply with all legal and ethical standards.

HR & Payroll Administration

Prepare employment contracts letters and any other employee related documents

Process all employee changes in Workday (HRIS)

Liaise with Global teams and third party vendor on timely processing of monthly payroll and reporting.

Training and Development

To deliver and facilitate training programs and activities such as onboarding programs performance appraisals people management etc.

Talent Management

To implement and support global Talent Management initiatives. Identify develop/customize and implement global initiatives within country.

Supports and implements People Voice (employee survey) within the country. Analyses results and establish improvement initiative in improving People Voice results within country.

Monthly visits to retail stores building engagement with retail community and collecting feedbacks on people related matters.

Organize relevant events within country to build engagement and employee bonding.

Management Information

Utilise MI provided by core HR to highlight trends monitor turnover absence employee satisfaction reward and benefit information etc.

Deliver a monthly set of reports to the key stakeholders to data on HR related KPIs and trend analysis with commentary outlining areas of focus

Analyse the information and ensure that Management fully understand the trends and make recommendations to ensure productivity and profitability

Other

Share and learn best practices from HR communities in Germany and Switzerland.

Manage compensation and benefits of people within country including medical/insurance leave incentives salaries etc.

Attends to and provide timely response to people on any enquiry. Ensures that service level are maintained by third party vendors (where relevant).

Support the HR Europe team as and when needed.

Update and communicate on changes of people policies to relevant people.

Keep abreast with countrys regulation and regulatory needs ensuring compliance to local laws and regulations.

Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor HRM degree

A minimum of 56 years generalist Human Resources experience coupled with strong commercial awareness

Strong knowledge of German (and ideally Swiss) labor regulations

Experience working in a global matrixed organisation which is customer and sales focused

Excellent interpersonal communication and influencing skills

Good in managing priorities and timelines and excellent in managing diverse stakeholders

Knowledge of people management theory and practice such as recruitment and selection performance management remuneration and benefits German Works Councils and general industrial/employee relations

Independent contributor who is comfortable working independently with minimum supervision

A person with strong integrity firm and good with problem solving capability

Experienced working with HR systems preferably Workday

Fluent in German and English